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| NEWSLETTER March 2006 | |
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING The Annual General Meeting and the dinner to follow take place from 7.30 PM on Wednesday 29 March 2006. The venue is Giuseppe's Italian Restaurant, 64 Smith Street, Darwin. The cost is $30 per person for a three course meal. The restaurant is licensed but you can bring your own alcohol. Corkage is $3 per person. Nominations are called for the following positions: President; Vice-President; Honorary Secretary; Honorary Treasurer; Honorary Minutes Secretary; members of Council. Members can nominate themselves in writing to the Society's postal address before the meeting or can do so in person at the meeting. Nominations are welcome as there are currently vacancies on the Council. The meeting is usually short and the dinner most enjoyable. If you are attending the meeting please contact the Historical Society by 20 March 2006 at its postal address with:
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RECENT PUBLICATIONS ON NORTHERN TERRITORY HISTORY Philip Jones, The Policeman's Eye: The Frontier Photography of Paul Foelsche, South Australian Museum, Adelaide, 2005, no ISBN. Sue Williams, And Then The Darkness: The Disappearance of Peter Falconio and the Trials of Joanne Lees, ABC Books, Sydney, 2006 ISBN 0733312969 [one of several recent books on this subject]. DAVID CARMENT After serving on the Historical Society Council continuously since 1982, David Carment, the current Honorary Secretary, is not seeking re-election. From early March he will be based in Sydney but he is retaining his position as Professor of History at Charles Darwin University on a 30% fractional basis and re-visiting Darwin once every three months for postgraduate supervision and research. Council member Yvonne Forrest has kindly agreed to take over compilation of the newsletter from the next issue. Download a copy of the latest ARCHIVES REPORT October / December 2005 -January 2006: Historical Society of the Northern Territory |
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NEXT LECTURE The 2006 lecture series is on the history of sport and recreation in the Northern Territory. The first lecture is from 8.00 PM onWednesday 22 February 2006 in the theatre, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Bullocky Point. Matthew Stephen, a Society member and a PhD student in History at Charles Darwin University, discusses the role of sport and recreation in the Northern Territory before 1911. All interested persons are most welcome to attend. Refreshments will be served. JUDY BOLAND: DARWIN CITIZEN OF THE YEAR Warm congratulations go to the Society's Honorary Treasurer, Judy Boland, the winner of the Darwin Citizen of the Year Award for 2006. As an educator and through her community activities, Judy has made outstanding contributions over many years to the study and promotion of Northern Territory heritage and history. MUSEUM AND ART GALLERY OF THE NORTHERN TERRITORY The Historical Society thanks the Director of the Museum and Art Gallery for her continuing support through allowing the Society to use the theatre at Bullock Point without charge. This is very much appreciated. The theatre provides a really excellent venue for the lecture series. On show at the Museum until 12 March 2006 is the excellent The Policeman's Eye: The Photography of Paul Foelsche 1870s-1890s. The exhibition includes a remarkable series of images of Darwin as it took shape from the 1870s and portraits of Larrakia and Woolna people. ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING The Annual General Meeting and the dinner to follow take place from 7.30 PM on Wednesday 29 March 2006. Further details will be in the March newsletter.
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RECENT PUBLICATIONS ON NORTHERN TERRITORY HISTORY Valerie Asche AM (Society member), A Viking Saga: Asche Migration from Norway Commencing in the Nineteenth Century, The author, Darwin, 2005, ISBN 0975761498. Valerie Asche AM (Society member), Beryl Victoria Zichy Asche Dip Dom Arts: A Woman of the Twentieth Century, The author, Darwin, 2005, ISBN 0975835602. Patricia M Bourke, 'Identifying Aboriginal "Contact Period" Sites around Darwin: Long Past due for Native Title?', in Australian Aboriginal Studies, no 1, 2005, pp 54-65. David Carment (Society member), 'Political Chronicle: Northern Territory, January to June 2005', in Australian Journal of Politics and History, vol 51, no 4, 2005, pp 617-622. Peter and Sheila Forrest, Tiwi Meet the Future: Ngawurraningimarri 'All Come Together', Tiwi and the Dutch - Celebrating 300 Years Together 1705-2005, Tiwi Land Council, Darwin, 2005, ISBN 0975146513. Darrell Lewis and Lexie Simmons, Kajirri: The Bush Missus, Central Queensland University Press, Rockhampton, 2006, ISBN 1876780 754. |